Applications of Action Languages in Cognitive Robotics

  • Esra Erdem
  • Volkan Patoglu
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7265)

Abstract

We summarize some applications of action languages in robotics, focusing on the following three challenges: 1) bridging the gap between low-level continuous geometric reasoning and high-level discrete causal reasoning; 2) embedding background/commonsense knowledge in high-level reasoning; 3) planning/prediction with complex (temporal) goals/constraints. We discuss how these challenges can be handled using computational methods of action languages, and elaborate on the usefulness of action languages to extend the classical 3-layer robot control architecture.

Keywords

Logic Program Motion Planning Action Language Geometric Reasoning Domain Description 
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  • Esra Erdem
    • 1
  • Volkan Patoglu
    • 1
  1. 1.Faculty of Engineering and Natural SciencesSabancı UniversityTuzlaTurkey

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